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After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family... ***SHORTLISTED FOR FICTION - 2023 NERO BOOK AWARDS*** After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family... 'Gripping... A triumph' SUNDAY TIMES 'Heartbreaking' VOGUE It's 1990 in London and, after the death of a young girl on an estate, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive Irish family- the Greens. At their heart sits Carmel- beautiful, other-worldly, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life - and love - got in her way. Now, as the scandal unfolds and the tabloids hunt their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations. ***A DAILY TELEGRAPH, TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*** 'Daring, brilliant... Bold and beautiful' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Ambitious and original' DAVID NICHOLLS 'A compulsive read' THE TIMES

About the Author :
Megan Nolan was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland and is currently based in New York. Her essays and reviews have been published by the New York Times, White Review, Guardian and Frieze amongst others. For her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, Nolan was the recipient of a Betty Trask Award, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Ordinary Human Failings has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Nero Book Award for Fiction and the Gordon Burn Prize.

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Megan Nolan's debut novel saw her grouped with other Irish millennial women such as Sally Rooney and Naoise Dolan. But with her ambitious and insightful second novel, Ordinary Human Failings, Nolan makes it clear she is not a manifestation of a type, but rather a writer to be read on her own terms One masterful novel... Nolan has excelled herself: Ordinary Human Failings is a raw, pulsing thing... A writer who's still at the start of what promises to be a splendid career. Ordinary Human Failings is a bold and beautiful second novel... daring in all the right ways, but compassionate when it needs to be There is something wonderfully ordinary about this book... Nolan has set out to make a plain three-legged stool rather than an ornate grandfather clock. The corridors of contemporary literature are stuffed with grandfather clocks with faulty mechanisms. How much more valuable is this modest, well-made thing Nolan’s novel is dark in subject, yet retains a tender faith in a person’s, or a family’s, capacity for change As much of a compulsive read as the first novel A subtle, accomplished and lyrical study of familial and intergenerational despair, a quiet book about quiet lives... An excellent novel: politically astute, furious and compassionate... A genuine achievement The millennial author everyone should be watching right now Nolan has crafted a novel full of brutal, illuminating truths Megan Nolan is one of the brightest young things around Addiction, teenage pregnancy and heartbreak fuel this pacey, poignant novel


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781787332508
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Height: 224 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Weight: 336 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1787332500
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jul 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 142 mm


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